Word usage error: A word that is spelled correctly but used incorrectly. Example: principle/principal, affect/effect, flair/flare, rest/wrest, sometime/some time (limited to similar-sounding words).

No error: The line contains no errors.

21 ___ During March of last year the police were 22 ___ patrolling the area in search of the suspect and 23 ___ that pursuit, by the way, lead them to a small 24 ___ house that contained drug paraphenalia.

25 ___ When she was asked, “Will you please assist us?” 26 ___ how did she reply? Did she say to you, “I am already 27 ___ doing all I can?” She told us that she would be 28 ___ spending the entire evening at her parents.

29 ___ I thought that she simply had no flare for the job; 30 ___ yet she was not one of the lessor players for us. 31 ___ There was no joie de vivre and no enthusiasm. 32 ___ The thing that was really missing was committment.

33 ___ She was prescribed Tylenol for pain, Naproxen, 34 ___ an anti-inflammatory; and Ambien so that she could 35 ___ get some sleep. Even with all of these drugs she 36 ___ remained very uncomfortable and miserable.

37 ___ She had all the toys: an iPhone, an iPad, and 38 ___ a Kindle Fire, that she needed for the job. However, 39 ___ her principle task, which was to maintain her 40 ___ boss’ schedule, seemed to be beyond her ability.

41 ___ Was it clear to you that the land had been ceded to 42 ___ the plantiff? Was that the outcome that you understood 43 ___ from the documents that you had? Why didn’t you say to 44 ___ him, “Why did you give up so easily?”

45 ___ Did you visit the state capitol, where the 46 ___ headquarters of his company Logan International, was 47 ___ located? Is that where the confrontation took place, 48 ___ and where you said to him, “I shall not work for you?”

49 ___ She reported intra-abdominal cramping from the 50 ___ begining. If the doctors had been paying more 51 ___ attention they would have recognized early symptoms of 52 ___ appendicitis. Because her symptoms did not change.

53 ___ They made every attempt to effect the new plan before 54 ___ the end of the year. When they met at the Barnes’s 55 ___ house to discuss the grating of the new roads, they 56 ___ discussed a major part of the plan, that was missing.

57 ___ The project peaked my interest as it was just what 58 ___ I had been looking for, a unique opportunity to 59 ___ brake into the world of design. I had my degree in 60 ___ art, but hadn’t been able to utilize it.

61 ___ The men were assigned the task to lade the ship before 62 ___ it sailed that Friday. The foreman of the project 63 ___ Dan Hanson, had on many occassions failed to carry out 64 ___ his duty, this time we thought he could handle it.

65 ___ In my opinion, it was time for him to turn in to the 66 ___ man we had hired. His resume was excellent but his 67 ___ performance had been substandard for a number of 68 ___ months. We needed to be shone what he could do.

69 ___ I want to know what you told him at the time? Did 70 ___ you have a talk with him and lecture him on his 71 ___ failings or did you coddle him? Wasn’t it time to 72 ___ just lay it on the line and say, “Enough”?

73 ___ Was the censor working? You said that his pulse 74 ___ rate skyrocketed; didn’t you? With this in mind, 75 ___ did you alert the family to the problem he was 76 ___ having; the serious decline in his condition?

77 ___ They maintained seperate residences even though they 78 ___ seemed to get along okay. It just worked out, for the 79 ___ two of them to live a part for most of the time. We 80 ___ found it strange, but not all that uncommon.

Vocabulary

Directions: Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.